In this episode, we compare (arguably) the best Wes Anderson movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and find that it is very similar to the lazy made-for-TV Cinderella story, If The Shoe Fits. We also do a recap on the career of Jennifer Grey (including some sweet hot goss), we talk about why Wes Anderson is one of the best comedy film directors ever, and we also talk about, like, the nature of time, man. It's, like, a deep epi. Find us on Twitter , Instagram and Letterboxd email us at fromjustintokan...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Mike and Bob celebrate the extremely recent release of the Netflix-produced David Fincher-directed David Fincher's Dad-written passion project MANK, about esteemed screenwriter and professional alcohol drinker Herman J Mankiewiscz... AKA the titular Mank. We discuss the history of the film, we do a breakdown of the technical side of things, we talk about how it does our boy Orson dirty, we both give it a review.... we really get into all things Mank! If you love Mank-based podcasts, this is the ...
Dec 07, 2020•48 min
In this episode we finally answer the question "what do a movie about a guy in love with his computer and a movie about three toilet goblins have in common"? Quite a lot apparently. They seem to pretty much be the same movie as far as we can tell. Spike Jones' beautiful computer-boinking Her goes head to head with the third entry in the horror-comedy franchise Ghoulies, and there is a wild connection we found between these films that is nigh unbelievable. Plus: bonus meta-segment "Amazon Corner"...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 31 min
Once again we return to the format that made us (not) famous! In this epi we compare John Sturges' upbeat WWII action thriller with one of the most misguided films we have ever seen, Tiptoes - the movie where Gary Oldman plays a little person. As always, the movies are more similar than you would think! We also discuss other "happy war films", chat about Newman-o's, and Mike tells a story about the time that Roger Ebert insulted him. Enjoy! Find us online: http://www.twitter.com/fromjustin2kane ...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 22 min
In a special "minisode", we talk about the series finale of the TV show F.R.I.E.N.D.S, among other things. Find us online: http://www.twitter.com/fromjustin2kane http://www.instagram.com/fromjustin2kane http://www.letterboxd.com/fromjustin2kane email us at fromjustintokane@gmail.com Artwork by Josh Holinaty: http://www.holinaty.com Music by Doug Hoyer: http://www.doughoyer.com #fromjustintokane #podcast...
Nov 09, 2020•48 min
We're back to our regular format after a month of guests talkin' scary movies, with another big ole slab o' meat for our Kanines. This time we are talking about the Billy Wilder-directed, Audrey Hepburn-starrer romantic comedy Sabrina (1954), and comparing it to the non-MCU Spider-man-adjacent superhero action-buddy-comedy" Venom (2018). We also talk about other superhero movies, the nerve-wracking upcoming American election, and whether Venom is all a metaphor for Stan Lee having herpes. We're ...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In our final Spooky Month episode, we tackle Pier Paolo Pasolini's famously disturbing anti-fascist metaphor film Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, and we do so with two very good friends, RJ and Jarrett from the Criterion Creeps podcast . Aside from the obvious poo-eating, we discuss the the art of Criterion collecting, what makes a worthy film canon, plus we get down to brass tacks with some obscure horror film recommendations and really nerd out about film directors. It's a great epi and a perfect ...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 31 min
In this episode, we have special guest Chris Borger from the Marv n' Berry Podcast to talk with us about one of his favorite spooky flicks, Cabin in the Woods. Appropriately so, we spend most of our time NOT talking about this meta-horror movie and instead talk about our very own podcast on our own podcast- as meta as it gets. We also do a deep dive on Star Wars monkey puppet hype-man Salacious B. Crumb and further explore Bob's mukbang obsession. This is definitely our weirdest episode yet! Enj...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 9 min
In this episode we watch Uwe Boll's hilariously bad adaptation of the Sega arcade series House of the Dead, with two fans of the film: Luke and Golshan from the basketball podcast "Hoop Fan in a Frozen Land" . We really get in deep about the career of German director Uwe Boll, and Golshan regales us with a story about the time he met Dr. Boll. We also talk about Luke and Golshan's favorite horror films, their favorite basketball films, video game adaptations, Dave Foley's penis, and we really ge...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 31 min
We take a break from our usual format for the month of October, a.k.a. Spooky Month. Every week this month, we will be watching a scary movie with a guest! This week, we talk with our good friend Julia about the French body-horror film Raw, wherein a bout of cannibalism breaks out at a veterinary school. Julia is currently pre-vet, loves horror films and is a vegan, so she is the perfect guest for this epi. We talk about her favorite horror films, the great Fred Krueger, get into the nitty gritt...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 19 min
In this episode we explore two films that were released 125 years apart! Fred Ott's Sneeze, the six-second-long Thomas Edison produced film that features his colleague sneezing is put up against Logan Paul's execrable feature film vehicle (ho ho), Airplane Mode. Can we find that a six second film and a full length movie are the same? You'd be fools to doubt us, is all I will say. This one is a good one if you are at all interested in film history, lots of fun facts as we chart the path from the ...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Here's another big greasy slab of meat for the Kanines. It's an epic epi! This one is all over the place... in a good way. We discuss Wong Kar Wai's majestic In The Mood For Love and how it is similar to the fun but terrible Leprechaun 2, also known as "Deucey-Lep". Drinking Game: Take a drink everytime we say "Deucey-Lep". In this episode we also celebrate the career of Warwick Davis, pitch a skateboarding drama featuring Freddy Kreuger, and figure out the exact nature of Darth Vader and C3PO's...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Our most difficult - and obscure - pair up yet! We watch Lulu Wang's 2019 tribute to her dying grandmother, The Farewell, and (respectfully) find that it is (mostly) the same movie as Andy Sidaris's bonkers action boobsterpiece, Hard Ticket to Hawaii - considered by many to be the #1 B-movie of all time. We also talk about what it takes to make a dinosaur theme park movie, as well as building a treehouse out of human bones (don't worry it makes sense in context). Find us online: http://www.twitt...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 28 min
We take a break from our typical format, and record a special episode in Mike's backyard - complete with neighbourhood ambiance. Most importantly though, we get down to brass tacks about Bob's excessive romantic comedy viewing habits. We talk about what rom-coms Bob has watched during the pandemic (spoiler: a friggen lot), we introduce a new segment "Is it a Rom-Com?", plus Mike quizzes Bob on his rom-com knowledge! What a fun episode! Find us online: http://www.twitter.com/fromjustin2kane http:...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 24 min
In this epi, we watch The Godfather, one of the greatest achievements in American film history, and we compare it to The Love Guru, Mike Myer's cinematic fall from grace. What do these films have in common? Lots! Mostly themed around cultural stereotyping (natch). Plus, Mike regales Bob with movie theatre horror stories, we talk about 1999 (one of the best movie years), and we introduce a new segment: Movie Corner, where we talk about - you guessed it - movies! This is a super fun episode, and o...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 25 min
This is an episode of firsts! It's our first two-parter episode, and it's our first guest! Please give a big generous Kanine welcome to David Berry, the author of "On Nostalgia", a wonderful little book that humorously tackles the subject of nostalgia - what it is, what it was, why we feel it, and is that feeling a good thing or a bad thing... or both? The entire episode is an interview with David, and it's a great one! And hey, buy his book why don't ya! Get his book right here: https://chbooks...
Aug 24, 2020•46 min
The first FJ2K episode recorded during the pandemic, and to celebrate this nightmarish new world we live in, we compare two very recent movies: the elegantly horny French masterpiece Portrait of a Lady on Fire - that just came out on digital platforms right as the pandemic hit North America - and the also horny (but for pop culture) Ready Player One, directed by none other than Steven Spielberg, one of the living legends of American cinema! This is a real doozy of an epi! The male gaze vs. the f...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 17 min
In probably one of the more bizarre pair-ups, Mike and Bob watch Pixar's most recent sentient plaything sequel, Toy Story 4, and compare it to the trainwreck that is 2019's "comedy" Loqueesha, a film that we decide is, quite frankly, very racist. As always, there are actually quite a few parallels between the two films, and it makes for an interesting discussion that covers a range of topics including comedic intent, colonialism, the patriarchy, and the democratization of film in the modern age....
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min
It's our tenth episode! To celebrate ten episodes, we are releasing our most controversial episode yet! Recorded in early January of this year (pre-lockdown), Mike and Bob make the bold assertion that 2019's Cats is a good movie. And we are comparing it to the second Star Wars movie ever released, which we are saying is the bad movie... And no we're not talking about Empire Strikes Back. It's the Star Wars Holiday Special! And yes, we realize this is the second episode in a row where we talk abo...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Kanines! Riddle me this: what do an opera house in the middle of the Amazon and West Edmonton Mall have in common? Spoiler alert: LOTS. In this episode we watch Werner Herzog's boat-centric adventure film Fitzcarraldo, and compare it to the semi-obscure, semi-straight-to-video holiday stinker Christmas in Wonderland - a movie interesting only because it was filmed right here in our home city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In fact, Mike worked on the movie, as a production assistant, and regales B...
Jul 22, 2020•57 min
Hey Kanines! We're back! In this episode, we watch the iconic and surreal semi-autobiographical journey into Frederico Fellini's navel, 8 1/2, and discover that it is extremely similar to the nautical-horror cash-in sequel Jaws 3-D, a film that we viewed in but two of those three dimensions. That's right, Barbara the Shark is back in yet another Jaws movie! We also share our font knowledge, start another pod beef, and riff out the plot to a meta sci-fi horror masterpiece about a shark in outer s...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 16 min
In this episode we really "get in the zone". What do Andrei Tarkovsky's nearly 4 hour long epic journey into the science fiction post-apocalyptic wasteland and Kevin Smith's nepotistic sausage-fest journey into the wintry wasteland of Winnipeg have in common? A lot, apparently. We also figure out a name for our fans, shill some (fake) merch, and play "When Did They Poop?" where we figure out when the characters in the movies used the bathroom. #afamilyaffair Don't forget to use the promo code "F...
Jul 08, 2020•59 min
In this episode we tackle the Dreamworks animation sensation Shrek (2001), and stack it up with 2016's DC Universe fail-son Suicide Squad, and SPOILER ALERT we find that these movies are scarily similar. If you know anything about Mike, you know he has a deep love of Shrek, so this episode was a real treat. We also try out our best Shrek impressions, we figure out which Shrek character is which Suicide Squad member, and we talk about how we COULD HAVE invented Youtube and Grand Theft Auto... but...
Jul 01, 2020•48 min
The pod! The pod! The center of the cast! Hey, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming, and we have a real good episode this week! In this episode we cover Sidney Lumet’s jury room drama 12 Angry Men, and we find out that it is the same as the mid-90’s feature film adaptation of The Baby-Sitter’s Club. As an added bonus, in the last half of the episode we go through every one of the eponymous angry men and figure out which juror most closely resembles which baby sitter! Riveting stuff!...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min
We resume after a two week hiatus, having taken some time off to focus on current events, and we decided to move this episode up the list because of how relevant it is to what is going on. In this episode we talk about Spike Lee’s second feature film, the incredibly important Do the Right Thing (1989), and we find how it is the same as M. Night Shyamalan’s 2008 mass hysteria the-plants-are-trying-to-kill-us B-movie The Happening. We recorded this episode more than a year ago and could not predic...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 4 min
In this episode, we compare the brilliant 1988 anime film Akira, and A Talking Cat!?! (2013), a children’s film that was directed by a man who is more known for his softcore porn films. Also: the cat is voiced by Eric Roberts. Through discussing the similarities between the two films, we discover that they are both about god-like figures with psychic powers, and both films are existential meditations on world war two that take place in a Shakespearean post-apocalyptic techno-dystopia. It's true!...
May 25, 2020•57 min
In our second episode, we talk about the OTHER film that is often considered the greatest film of all time: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). And we talk about the OTHER movie that takes place in Xanadu: the post-disco rollerskate Electric Light Orchestra musical called, well, Xanadu (1980). Do we find that both of these films are pretty similar? You’ll have to listen to find out! (spoiler alert: we do). Find us online: Web: http://www.fromjustintokane.libsyn.com/ Email: fromjustintokane@gmail....
May 18, 2020•49 min
In this, our very first episode, we explore the two films that gave our podcast it’s name: Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941) and From Justin to Kelly (2003), “the American Idol movie”. We find an alarming number of similarities between the two films - for example, both are set in Florida, both include characters with political ambitions, and are equally “musicals”. By the end of the episode, we agree that Citizen Kane and From Justin to Kelly are pretty much the same movie! And just ...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 7 min
In this special preview episode, we give a short sampler of our upcoming first episode, wherein we watch Citizen Kane (1941) and From Justin to Kelly (2003) and talk about how these two films are the same. Music by Doug Hoyer Art by Josh Holinaty
May 02, 2020•3 min
